artifex

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[–] artifex@piefed.zip 3 points 1 day ago

Can they please “fuel a push” for indictments instead?

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 18 points 4 days ago

(I just picked June 4 1989 randomly, ofc.) 🤣

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 131 points 4 days ago (23 children)

Considering how much damage Google et al do, I legitimately wonder whether China could even do worse, and I’m not even a tankie.

 

The China-centric video sharing platform is expanding with a new international app and an English version of its website -- with no identity verification (for now at least)

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 20 points 6 days ago

This would be highly efficient.

 

Researchers have figured out how make shaped drone rotors that convert audible and ultrasound frequencies into stable mechanical spinning motion, leading to tiny drones that can be completely silent. While scary-sounding (no pun intended) it's unclear how usable these would be in the real world, since a line-of-sight source of sound waves has to be provided.

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Yeah that’s what I’m saying. Even if you’re not using one of the big providers there’s a good chance they’re going to be at least handing it on its way to your self-hosted inbox, and its contents are unencrypted while they’re handling it (unless you encrypt the contents yourself). So there’s not much benefit to self hosting email if your goal is to keep your data out of big tech’s hands (and if that is your goal, don’t send anything important with email)

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

I might be out of the loop on how email works, but doesn’t it hop between several other email servers on its way from Alice to Bob (and at least some of it must still be unencrypted)? If so and given google’s scale you could probably just assume that even if they’re not your inbox they’re going to be at least handling many if not most emails along the way.

 

By swapping a game binary for a modified one that gives access to the desktop he was able to trick the system into thinking he was playing authorized material, and even got local AI models to run on the 48GB VRAM a6000 card that powers the system. I can't imagine this hole will go unpatched for long though.

[–] artifex@piefed.zip 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The data is all there, the vendor they were using to manage the storage just went OOB, and they’re not yet being allowed to retrieve it from the vendor’s storage vendor, Iron Mountain:

The lawsuit filed in Denver District Court alleges that the station’s cloud-storage vendor, Open Source Storage, abruptly cut off access to Nine PBS’ data earlier this year without warning. It states OSS, which had a separate relationship with Iron Mountain to provide data storage, went “defunct,” leaving Nine PBS’ archives in a data center operated by Iron Mountain.